Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another trial in 97 patients showed an advantage for surgery over radiotherapy in forestalling the appearance of distant metastases over five years . |
| 2 | Gravel for use over undergravel filter plates comes in a very wide choice of materials and sizes , often having a high price to match . |
| 3 | Erm so you would have done er yeah then you 've got You 've got your speed of distance over time correctly . |
| 4 | A further twenty-four lots were withdrawn as a result of uncertainty over ownership . |
| 5 | CHAIRMAN Sir Peter Parker was doing his best , but the 1980s opened with much the same worries of insecurity over government policy , lack of investment , and working practices which harked back to the old company rules . |
| 6 | The study of recall over time has been used to find whether there are separate system underlying short-term and long-term memory or only one system functioning at different levels ( Baddeley , 1976 ) . |
| 7 | Southern counties , although rather cloudy , will be mainly dry , except for outbreaks of drizzle over south-west England and South Wales . |
| 8 | Phonocentricism consists in a privileging of speech over writing . |
| 9 | However , in addition to providing information about the child , an indication of change over time may also be helpful in evaluating the success of previous attempts at remedial intervention . |
| 10 | But correct as the analysis may be it is limited to pragmatic instrumentalist legal theory , and the prescription fails to take account of social theories which may help to explain the changes in the rule of law over time . |
| 11 | There is an additional complication to this picture which is the increasing effect of demand over time . |
| 12 | The National Union of Women Workers , NUWW ( a philanthropic offshoot of Hopkins ' Ladies ' Association for the Care of Friendless Girls formed in 1895 ) , launched a fresh assault on the conspiracy of silence over incest at their annual conference in 1906 . |
| 13 | But finally there was a victory , a quiet one in his own breast , and something like the elevation of disdain over stupidity and meanness , and rest after the long battle . |
| 14 | There is something so fatally trivial about this movie in its elevation of appearance over substance , that I feel an irrational resistance to her as Claudia . |
| 15 | Mr Fallon , the Schools Minister , hopes he has finally ended months of controversy over Government funding of building work at St Bede 's and St Augustine 's RC primary schools . |
| 16 | Candidates in wrangle over training funds Darlington training groups could be forced to pull out of a government scheme because of a lack of funds , the town 's Labour 's candidate predicted this week . |
| 17 | Rainforest negotiations reach impasse in deadlock over debt |
| 18 | Specific topics of interest are the impact of collective agreements on pay in Northern Ireland , and the composition of the workforce ( ie occupation/industry/sex/part-time or full-time nature of the workforce ) and its effect on pay over time . |
| 19 | Shedding some light on protest over VAT on fuel . |
| 20 | Also , some appear suddenly ( like a visitation ) , others build up gradually , piece by piece over time in an incremental process . |
| 21 | If it is seen as part of control over quality of education , the parent might ask why the child should be given access at all . |
| 22 | ‘ You look fabulous , you know , ’ said Miranda , deciding to take the part of generosity over envy . |
| 23 | Moreover , one important advantage of Raman over IR spectroscopy is that water has very weak Raman scattering , and vibrational spectra of aqueous solutions are almost always studied most readily using Raman techniques . |
| 24 | Also taken from Paracelsus was the idea that the new science and medicine were biblically sanctioned and destined to attain a new level of control over nature . |
| 25 | The Smiths were the second coming of Postcard — the whiter-than-white ‘ pure pop ’ : the sexual ambiguity ; the Luddite insistence on guitars : Edwyn Collins 's avowed rating of romance over sex ; the swoon instead of the earthy R&B rasp ; the flustered undanceability . |
| 26 | He subsequently concluded that , in spite of his own intentions , it was still too deeply coloured by the thought of Kierkegaard and Heidegger , that it gave faith a wrong kind of priority over revelation in the arrangement of its material , and that its account of faith was more Existentialist than Christian . |
| 27 | Banning of newspaper over abortion advertisement |
| 28 | He also has no hesitation in reminding capitalism , in its spooky hour of triumph over communism , that the ‘ culture of contentment ’ has always depended on this underclass — indeed , has happily imported it when necessary to do the menial and distasteful jobs at the cheapest possible wage . |
| 29 | But after Hereford 's defeat by Doncaster last week , it may be a case of confidence over conscience . |
| 30 | The need to preserve experience for knowledge based systems , the need for verification in case of dispute over contract or other liabilities , legal requirements and citizens data access rights will ensure the preservation of wide ranges of data . |